EPUB

Read Online 8.8 MB Download

For Windows Server administrators, Hyper-V Replica is the free disaster recovery tool that can transform system availability. This book is the ultimate guide, taking a totally practical, empirical approach to teaching best practices. Overview - A practical step-by-step guide that goes beyond theory and focuses on getting hands-on - Ensure business continuity and faster disaster recovery - Learn how to deploy a failover cluster and encrypt communication traffic In Detail Enterprises need to make sure that their systems are always up and running no matter what happens. Hyper-V Replica is a free disaster recovery tool in Hyper-V 3.0 that creates and maintains copies of virtual machines (VMs). In the event of a catastrophic loss, an administrator can failover to the replica VMs and provide business continuity. Hyper-V Replica Essentials is a step by step guide to configuring Hyper-V Replica in various deployment scenarios. This book will give you an overview of Hyper-V Replica before taking you through the prerequisites required to properly configure Hyper-V Replica. Then, through a series of practical steps, this book will enable you to take advantage of this highly beneficial disaster recovery tool. Hyper-V Replica Essentials starts by introducing you to Hyper-V Replica and will help you understand what it does and where you can apply it. We will then move onto learning how to configure a server environment with failover capabilities based on Microsoft Hyper-V and also how to use features including Live Storage Migration. Finally, you learn how to configure Hyper-V Replica authentication, and to troubleshoot problems with Hyper-V Replica as well as solving different types of problems. What you will learn from this book - Configure the Server Message Block (SMB) server for file storage - Install Hyper-V on physical machines - Set up a failover cluster - Configure the Hyper-V Replica server - Set up virtual machines for replication - Create a certificate template - Import a certificate template to a Hyper-V host - Test Hyper-V Replica configuration Approach A fast-paced, step-by-step guide to configuring Hyper-V Replica in various deployment scenarios. Who this book is written for Hyper-V Replica Essentials is for Windows Server administrators who want to improve their system availability and speed up disaster recovery. You will need experience in Hyper-V deployment because Hyper-V Replica is built in the Hyper-V platform.